ECH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Proxy War, Iron Curtain, Arms Control

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Conflict Studies and Human Rights
• Course: ECH 1100
• Professor: Jean-François Ratelle

Document Summary

Cold war and conflicts 3 dynamics of conflicts: alliances in europe, nato vs. warsaw pact, still existing in europe, idea of a buffer zone was to protect themselves (in between. Germany and russia, when germany invaded russia: arms race (deterrence & mad, nuclear bombs. Russia will give resources to the talibans to fight. Cold war (1945-1990: postdam conference (1945, for world order at the end of ww2, soviet union, americans and russians were allies against. Korea: soviet union backed north korea and nato supported. South korea: nato was forced to develop a military structure, 2 nations came to an agreement only after tali(cid:374)"s death, joseph stalin dies (1953, death of u r"s po(cid:449)erful leader (cid:449)as a huge i(cid:373)pa(cid:272)t o(cid:374) the. Ussr and a little impact on international cooperation: be(cid:272)a(cid:373)e (cid:373)ore diffi(cid:272)ult for u r to i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tries" actions, warsaw pact (1955, arms race between super powers, icbm & mutual assured destruction (mad)